The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:30:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.11 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png 2026 Proxy Season: Trending Proposal Topics – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 2026 Proxy Season: Trending Proposal Topics https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/09/04/2026-proxy-season-trending-proposal-topics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2026-proxy-season-trending-proposal-topics https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/09/04/2026-proxy-season-trending-proposal-topics/#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:32:27 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=183554?d=20260903162639EDT Posted by Zally Ahmadi, D.F. King, on Friday, September 4, 2026
Editor's Note:

Zally Ahmadi is a Managing Director, Governance Advisory at D.F. King. This post is based on her D.F. King memorandum.

This post is the second part of D.F. King’s 2026 Proxy Season debriefing report. See here the first part on Shareholder Proposals.

‘Anti-ESG’ Proposals

This year, the ‘anti-ESG’ movement remained a fixture in the shareholder proposal space, remaining in the upper half of our ‘top proposals’ lists. However, the number of proposals decreased meaningfully and average support levels for these proposals remain in the single digits.

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